Principal Software Engineer - BuildTech at Zynga

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The Zynga BuildTech team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to design, deploy and maintain centralized build & release pipelines that provide teammates with fresh mobile builds to increase their productivity. You will work closely with other incredible professionals inside game teams and your solutions will empower the workflow of their processes. The right candidate for this position will be an experienced cloud AWS systems engineer with solid understanding of modern infrastructure as code and configuration as code practices. They will have the ability to successfully drive adoption/support of shared tools and frameworks across multiple teams and support multiple platforms which are unique to building and testing games.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, deploy and maintain centralized tools and engineering infrastructure, including CICD platforms, build farms, SCM systems, package management, and code review tools
Ensure the automation and delivery of required projects
Verify the security and integrity of the infrastructure
Maintain crucial skills in modern technology/standards and use automation whenever possible
Establish testing and reporting methods that drive critical metrics for system performance
Communicate with internal customers and game teams to understand system requirements
Propose improvements to system architecture and drive automation efforts
Update and maintain documentation/runbooks
using infrastructure as code and configuration as code; participate in design/code reviews, measure code coverage, assess overall system quality, and ensure the effectiveness
Root cause and resolve problems with automated systems and deployments
Collaborate with internal customers to troubleshoot issues, improve stability, push adoption and support of automation frameworks as part of their development/release pipeline including how they will integrate into current and evolving infrastructure.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Motivated, not afraid of learning new technologies
6+ years of working experience
Experience with Jenkins
Experience with provisioning solutions (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
Experience with monitoring and diagnostic tools (Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code mindsets
AWS services knowledge
Experience with containerization (Docker)
You are able to explain technical issues to both technical & non-technical audience
Excellent customer service and communication skills when managing and responding to customer tickets

PREFERRED SKILLS

Unity build process knowledge
Apple toolchain knowledge (XCode, provisioning profiles)
Systems engineering and administration experience in an enterprise environment for any of the following: GitHub, Perforce, Swarm, Artifactory
Experience with multi-platform systems administration (Linux, Mac, Windows)

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

Competitive salary, bonus plan and ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan)
401K Company Match Contribution (US)
RRSP/DPSP company match contribution (Canada)
Health coverage, dental, disability, critical illness, EAP, and life insurance (Canada)
Medical, dental, vision, EAP, life insurance, and disability benefits (US)
Virtual mental health and neurodiversity support programs
Global Fitness reimbursement program
Global Wellbeing Program
Financial wellness program with unlimited access to certified financial planners
Discretionary Time Off policy for many employees
Family planning support program
Generous paid parental, pregnancy-related disability, caregiver, and compassionate leaves
Subsidized Back-up child care
Zynga happy hours and frequent employee events
Flexible working hours on many teams
Culture of diversity and inclusion including employee resource groups
Work with cool people and impact millions of daily player

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Estimated Salary range:

Our salary intelligence, powered by our AI algorithms, has calculated an estimated range for this position between $130,000 - $160,000 . Please note that the actual salary for this position may vary, as it is dependent on various factors including but not limited to experience, location, and market dynamics.

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